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Cordelia to Lear in the love trial
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I love your majesty according to my bond; no more no less.
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Lear disavowing Cordelia after the love trial
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Here I disclaim all my paternal care, propinquity and property of blood, and as a stranger to my heart and me.
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Lear pitting his daughters against each other
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Which of you shall we say doth love us most, that we our largest bounty may extend where nature doth with merit challenge.
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End of the play – Lear’s recognition of his powerlessness and his faults
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Here I stand your slave, a poor, infirm, weak and despised old man.
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Lear asking Cordelia to forgive him
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When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down and ask of thee forgiveness.
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Kent’s love for Lear
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Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak, when power to flattery bows? To plainness honour's bound, when majesty stoops to folly. Reverse thy doom.
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Kent's love for Lear, a natural force
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Fie on the storm! I will go seek the king.
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Lear's kindness to the fool
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Come now, my boy? How dost, my boy? Art cold? I am cold myself. Where is this straw, my fellow? … Poor fool and knave, I have one part in my heart that’s yet sorry for thee.
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Lear after Cordelia’s death
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Howl, howl, howl, howl! O you are men of stone, Had I your tongues and eyes, I’d use them so that heaven’s fault should crack. She’s gone forever! I know when one is dead, and when one lives; she is dead as the earth. Lend me a looking glass, if that her breath yet mist or stain the stone, then she lives.
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Lear to his daughters
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Meantime we shall express our darker purpose. Give me the map there. Know that we have divided in three our kingdom, and tis our fast intent to shake all cares and business from our age conferring them on younger strengths while we unburdened crawl towards death.
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Lear to Kent and the fool on his kingdom
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O, I have taken too little care of this! Take physic, pomp...
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Edmund to Glocester
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The younger rises when the old doth fall.
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Lear to Kent after Cordelia's death
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I am old now… Mine eyes are not the best, I’ll tell you straight.
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Gloucester after being blinded
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I have no way, and therefore want no eyes; I stumbled when I saw
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Lear's final lines
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Pray you, undo this button: thank you, sir.
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Lear on clothing imagery
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Is a man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, Unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art – off, off, you lendings. Come, unbutton here.
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Lear to Cordelia in the love trial - significant line.
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Nothing will come of nothing.
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Fool to Lear, defaming Lear’s judgement of his daughters
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Truth’s a dog to kennel; he must be whipped.
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Goneril in the love trial – unquantifiable amounts.
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Dearer than eyesight, space, and liberty, beyond what can be valued, rich or rare, no less than life, with grace, health, beauty, honour
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Kent to Lear post-love trial, urging the king to stop
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See better, Lear, and let me still remain the true blank of thine eye.
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